Author: A Staff Reporter
Publication: Assam Tribune
Date: July 5, 2003
One Dimasa woman was burnt to death
while 23 dwelling houses and a school building set ablaze by suspected
Hmar miscreants in two separate incidents in violence-hit North Cachar
hill district during the last 24 hours.
Police sources in Haflong informed
that miscreants attacked a Dimasa and Bihari inhabited Barelangdisa village
at Santilla under Haflong Police Station and set fire to 23 dwelling houses
in order to scare away the villagers. A Dimasa woman died of the burn injuries
in the incident. In another incident at Mailongdisa under Harangajao
police station, two houses belonging to Dimasa and Bihari communities and
a school building were burnt down by miscreants.
